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  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment

landscape and ecosystem, and develop an understanding of various corporate structures / lifestyle including business “vocabulary”. They’ve taught me that it’s not okay to tell my classmates to, Drop View Details
  • 30 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

the family business. The portrait of the business would also typically represent more than 90 percent of the owners' wealth. “If this transition is not managed well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment... View Details
Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

executive branch and in Congress—who lacked the courage to risk political damage and take a stand on the issue. Sometimes, leaders actually set themselves up for predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 13 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

Tempura Women having a heart attack are less likely to die if their doctor is also female, a new study shows. How much less likely? When treated for a heart attack by men, the risk for women goes up 1.5 percent. That means roughly one in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • Article

Targeting Weather Insurance Markets

By: Anita Mukherjee, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen... View Details
Keywords: Index Insurance; Labor Markets; Self-insurance; Self-protection; Weather; Insurance; Markets; Household; Risk Management
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  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies and regulators. This paper explores how the scheduling of inspections View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

key goals. Controlling strategic risk: You will learn how to identify various types of internal and external risks and implement internal controls View Details
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

  Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

maintain majority control of their company. As attractive as the plan seems, they worry about the high cost of the loan and the risk that the offering might fail. In January 2005, with no time left to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

novel dataset on algorithmic programming contests that contains data on individual effort, risk taking, and cognitive errors that may underlie tournament performance outcomes. We find that competitors on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

headquarters reminds us that a brand is a precious asset. The value of any brand asset depends upon whether it has delivered on its past promises and is believed likely to do so in the future. It takes years of effort to build brand trust... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

on compensation of talented people, then you stop this mechanism, and you run the risk of having your company be less profitable," Vallée says. "You're putting a friction on a competitive market that's doing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

The firm has also innovated in sourcing capital from a variety of limited partners. Blackstone's culture of centralized investment processes and risk management coupled with entrepreneurial leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

some cases down to the source code level. Our study thus extends the concept of IP modularity to comprise the notion of hierarchy levels.   Working PapersInflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

higher risk projects and new ventures. This has a domino effect on the venture capital providers and subsequently on the angel investor community. Each group is concerned that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • May 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

SchmidtCo (A)

John Schmidt's project to convert the information system of his auto parts distribution business is in real trouble, putting his company at risk. He must decide what his decision problem is and set appropriate objectives as well as create a good set of alternatives... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Negotiation; Information Technology; Decision Making; Distribution Industry; Auto Industry
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  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

measure of carbon embedded within their institutional clients’ assets under custody to help clients understand the climate risk in their portfolios. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51261 Finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

sector has lost money during this period, new research shows. What went wrong? Professor Gary Pisano provides answers in the new book Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech, in which he argues that the very... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

so,” Kempf says. “We see it in views of the economy or views of certain risks, like the risk posed by certain political events or climate change or by the pandemic. There’s even the growing importance of partisanship in determining who... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors.  ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne